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Chapter 11
College Success Skills
23
Business
11th Grade
10/24/2012

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Appeals to pity
Definition
Critical thinking fallacy; soliciting sympathy form others.
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Apple Polishing
Definition
Critical thinking fallacy; complimenting another person to get something that is desired.
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Begging the question
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Critical thinking fallacy; when a statement is repeated with different words, but nothing added to the meaning; also called "circular reasoning".
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Beliefs
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Interpretations, evaluations, conclusions, and predictions a person considers to be true.
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Bias
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A tilted point of view.
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Brainstorming
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Widely used divergent thinking skill; an open-minded process to come up with as many ideas as possible on a topic, as quickly as possible.
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Card Stacking
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Presenting only part of the picture in order to influence or persuade others.
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Convergent Thinking
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Related to critical thinking; looks for correct answers or guides a person toward selecting from several answers.
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Creative Thinking
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Thinking about thinking in order to bring something new into existence.
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Critical Thinking
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Thinking about thinking in order to decide what to believe and how to behave.
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Divergent Thinking
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Related to creative thinking; thinking aimed at finding many possible answers.
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Fallacies
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Mistake in thinking.
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False Dilemma
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Critical-thinking fallacy; creating a dilemma where one does not exist to make someone think there are only tow choices in a situation.
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Hasty Generalization
Definition
Making a decision too quickly.
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Horse Laugh
Definition
Making fun of someone or something when you disagree.
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Metacognition
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Conscious attention to thinking; thinking about your thinking.
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Name-Calling
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Substitutes a personal insult fora direct response.
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Peer Pressure
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Something that causes a person to go along with the crowd in order to be accepted or popular.
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Scare Tactics
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Using intimidation to cause fear in another person.
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Slippery Slope
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When a claim is made that one change will lead to more changes and end in a bad result.
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Straw Person
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Disagreeing by changing a persons statement.
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Testimonial
Definition
Convincing others by using a quote or endorsement from someone of status.
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Two wrongs make a right
Definition
Returning an insult with an insult.
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